Monday, October 31, 2011

power

so we often (1-3 times per week) lose power... (Swahili - stima). so it isn't a rare occurrence for us to be doing something and suddenly the lights go off followed by a shout of "no stima!!!"

This last weekend we had no power from about 9 in the morning until about 6 at night. most things went on like normal...shops still operated...we still had tea we cooked meals (gas stove and oven).

we came to find out today that this particular outage was do to a labor dispute at the electric company. there are more threats of country wide loss of power starting tonight at midnight (countdown from now is just over 4.5 hours). will it happen? who knows...it really doesn't changes our lives that much...we may go to bed earlier...we may not be on the computer, but not a huge change to our lives.

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